Performance Review
Home, and Where the Heart Is
Blackout innovates with a trio of domicile-driven love stories
A philandering poet, a pair of clowns and a woman on the verge of burning her house down. These are several of the characters played by Jeff Andersen and Lila Martinez in Blackout Theatre Company’s latest original work, Stories of Us: A Guide to Home Improvement.
Book Review
Tangled Up in Turquoise
Tale of family ties is fraught with New Mexican clichés
When writing about New Mexico, it's easy to overdo it. Case in point: Jo-Ann Mapson's latest effort, Finding Casey.
Culture Shock
It’s the End of the World, and We Love it
If I hear one more damned story about the zombie apocalypse, I swear I’ll ... read it like all the others that came before. Sure, the blogosphere may be sensationalizing a series of horrific events that have ended in people being shot, eaten and internally microwaved by bad acid. But whether these events are happening on the streets of Florida or prime time TV on AMC, there are those of us who can’t help but gnaw on tales that depict a doomed world full of undead cannibals. If you need insight into why we like this kind of sick shit, just ask your friend the horror-buff film major if you can see her thesis paper on sociopolitical metaphor in the work of George Romero. (Trust me, she’s written one.)
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Radiant Reveries Revealed
Lost in a Dream: Fantasy and Abstracted Images by Joan Fenicle
Pixels and paint bring to life dreamscapes that spring from Fenicle’s imagination. Her images of forest dwellers and landscapes, like dreams, invite you to add your own meaning. Runs through 01/27/19.
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Banjos are Cool Now
We Banjo 3
Ireland's fusion band finds common ground between old world tradition and authentic Americana using a banjo, fiddle, guitar and mandolin in an innovation of styles that dubbed Celtgrass.
